David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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I want to get back to the €600 cap. I have seen some stuff from SIPTU, for instance, where it talks about awards from the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, or the Labour Court. It reckons that the reason the salary cap awards are disproportionate compared to other such awards is that when one applies for the awards, it is because it was not the intention of the Act that it would be applied to those awards. It talks about where some awards from the WRC and the Labour Court are calculated by reference to a worker's salary but many are not - for example, when an award is compensatory, as distinct from being related to wages owed. Can Ms Breathnach comment on that proposal?